About the Author

Linda R Timms

Who Am I?

After completing my business and marketing degree, I joined one of New Zealand’s most prestigious banks. As I worked my way up from a Teller to the Head of Lending in my inner city branch, the importance of customer service and a positive attitude became ingrained. I then moved into a Business Analyst role in an IT department for a big telecommunications company in New Zealand. Well, it was ‘big’ by New Zealand standards!

After many years in various IT departments, gathering user requirements, documenting the ‘inputs – processes – outputs’, and training users through to managers, I found myself working with SAP R/3. Subsequently, I completed my training and became an SAP Functional Consultant for Ernst and Young New Zealand.

My steep learning curve had begun. As the years past, I progressed from being a fledgling SAP consultant working on implementations in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, to taking the plunge and contracting independently in Europe and Asia.

Over the past seventeen years, I have had the great privilege of working on SAP with a number of the main consulting firms - Price Waterhouse Consulting, IBM, Cap Gemini, Anderson Consulting, Accenture, Axon Global, iTelligence and Deloitte Consulting.

I’ve become passionate about keeping up high standards in SAP implementations, having encouraged many junior consultants and offshore analysts over the years into striving to reach them. Now it’s time to reach a wider audience. The Consultant's Guide series of books and DVDs are aimed at SAP academy graduates, junior management consultants and offshore analysts who want to step up their game, build their professional reputation, write effective SAP functional specs, test efficiently and be proud of what they are doing.

I can also be available for remote consulting, coaching, seminars, training and mentoring programmes – see My Services for details or fill in the Enquiry form and I will respond as soon as I can.

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